Daily SearchCast, March 10, 2006: Google Buys Writely Browser Word Processor; The Richest People In Search; Search Engines Are Bad For Your Wedding Gift Registry & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google buying the Writely browser-based word
processor, Orkut’s woes continue; Google to help power Firefox anti-phishing
tools; is someone drafting your search ad; more on the Ashley Cole Gay results
at Google; finding library books via Google Book Search; the richest people in
search; why search engines might cause your wedding gifts to go astray and more!

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  • Google Buys
    Writely, A Browser Based Word Processor
  • Brazil Asks Google To Help Orkut To Stop Organizing Organized Crime
  • Google to
    Protect Firefox with Phishing Shield?
  • Google Removing
    Ads from Mobile Content?
  • ‘Drafting’ and
    ‘Hijacking’ in Paid Search
  • We Sell Ferrari Driving Experiences, But Google Won’t Let Us Say That
  • Google “Ashley
    Cole Gay” Results Suggestion Prompts Questions From His Solicitor
  • Google Book Search Adds Find it in a Library for Some Books
  • Google
    Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries

  • Searching for Library Books with RedLightGreen
  • AccessMyLibrary.com Puts Library-Only Content On The Web
  • More
    Sources For Ebooks & Electronic Text
  • More
    Online Book Resources
  • The Library
    Card Catalog 2005: More than Just Basic Book Info
  • Google to Partner with Wikipedia
  • Divining the Future of Search
  • Don’t Overlook SEO for Your Podcasts
  • Yahoo’s Yang Says It’s More Important To Be In China Than Risk Of Not
    Participating
  • Richest People in Search
  • Didn’t Get That Wedding Gift? Blame The Search Engines!
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